{"id":289521,"date":"2025-08-15T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/289521\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:27:10","slug":"steelers-cb-brandon-echols-admits-defense-was-flat-in-joint-practice-with-bucs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/289521\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers CB Brandon Echols admits defense was flat in joint practice with Bucs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> held a joint practice with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ahead of their preseason game this weekend. The team forces those in attendance to stay tight-lipped about anything that happens. In fact, reporters can only report on what they see at practice if it is confirmed directly by a player or coach.<\/p>\n<p>One player who made one such confirmation was Steelers cornerback Brandin Echols and the news wasn&#8217;t great. Echols confirmed that the<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just didn\u2019t come out with energy,\u201d Echols said. \u201cWe came out a little flat. Flatter than usual. So we just have to fix that. come out stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While we appreciate Echols&#8217; candor, he said something seriously worrying that you might have missed. Not only did Echols say the defense came out flat, he said &#8220;flatter than usual,&#8221; which would imply he is accustomed to the defense coming out flat, but today was special.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/08\/15\/steelers-cb-brandon-echols-admits-defense-flat-joint-practice-buccaneers\/85668238007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers CB Brandon Echols admits defense was flat in joint practice with Bucs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers CB Brandon Echols admits defense was flat in joint practice with Bucs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, the Pittsburgh Steelers held a joint practice with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ahead of their preseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[12009,211,7,6,57,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-289521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-brandin-echols","9":"tag-buccaneers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115031601608602705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}